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Black Quotes by Barack Obama
- I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are…
- I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long…
- I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white…
- If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or…
- I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.
- I'm determined to disagree with people without being disagreeable. That's part of the empathy. Empathy doesn't just extend to cute little kids. You have to…
- We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.
- Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a…
- The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society…
- There's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president.
- There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't…
- My father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. 'You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your…
- After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which…
- It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of…
- Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an…
- There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will…
- There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and…
- If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free…
- To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist…
- The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature…
- That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then…
- Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the…
- In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. — Dan Aykroyd
- It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin
- They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be… — Afrika Bambaataa